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The European Securities and Markets Commission has issued a call for evidence on public ledger technology and the blockchain in the EU. The Commission will be collecting opinions over the next six month.

Recent weeks saw yet another scandal connected with the Bitcoin Foundation. Factom founder Peter Kirby and CTO of CoinFox Nikolay Kolesnikov think that the scandals around Foundation will not affect the development of bitcoin technology.

The ‘Random Dark Shopper’ computer has been released by the Swiss police. The laptop, programmed by Swiss techno-artists to shop on the dark net, bought drugs, counterfeit clothes, and false documents.

The first bitcoin exchange offering to trade Chilean pesos for bitcoin has launched in Chile with financial assistance from the government. It aims to become the keystone of bitcoin infrastructure in Latin America.

Members of the Finnish Pirate Party raised a record sum of $15,000 in bitcoin donations before elections to the national parliament. Despite this, the party lost the elections, receiving just 0.85% of votes across the nation.